Basic breakdown of my weekend of Lollapalooza and Chicago Comic Con:
Friday - Lolla day 1
-Yuto Miyazawa: 9 year old Japanese boy playing mostly Ozzy Osbourne covers. T'was a fun site to see
-Manchester Orchestra: Decent act
-The Gaslight Anthem: Good high energy punk act.
-STS9 - Put them as my least favorite act on that stage, but still good.
-Thievery Corporation: Did not know what to expect and got a great spectacle of various styles of music. Great choice. Also a crazy ecstasy was around grinding and making out with various guys and girls in the audience. We were glad she was gone. She also gave me a hickey. Not proud the situation, but damn proud of the story.
-Depeche Mode: I really enjoyed their performance. One of the best highlights of the night. Up close for them too. No crazy drugged up girl was going to get me to lose my spot
Saturday - Comic Con and Lolla late
-Comic Con: My friends showed up at my house at 7 AM and were waiting for two girls who wanted to go with us to appear. However they overslept and never showed up, but promise to take us us out for dinner and a movie to make up for it. One of my friends, Mikey, dressed up as Deadpool. Because of this, our exploration was pretty slow as he kept posing for pictures. I am sure he also scratched up some walls at the place with his swords. While I only spent less than $100, he spent over $500. Most of it was taking pictures with wrestlers. One of them called Tara even took a picture with him for her Myspace. Also ran into Apexxx, Unaffected, and Darqkloud there as well saw the girls at the SG booth. Other than that, Comic Con didn't seem to be too eventful on my end. Probably cause i was tired from standing in the rain all day yesterday for Depeche Mode made me feel kind of drained and the lack of sleep and getting up early didn't help out with that.
-Rise Against: I knew I was going to see them in Chicago eventually. Nice act to see. Didn't really know what to expect. Felt bad though that I missed the Arctic Monkeys too. Still, enjoyed what I saw.
-Tool: Nice act, but even though I was only at the park for an hour, I really started to feel the heat. Plus being on my feet all day at the con with not much time to sit or eat probably didn't help out either. I did think Maynard said a good point with "The only sucks about playing at this time is I don't get to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Kind of bad scheduling." Also made a witty observation of the smell in the air and the people who decided to get fully naked and start dancing. As much as I would have liked to seen the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I figured it would have been cheaper to see their show in the future than it would to see a Tool show.
Sunday - Lolla Final Day
I almost wanted to sleep in the day, but decided to go earlier so I can see Bat for Lashes Good thing too
-Friendly Fires: Nice fun dance punk act. Was going to go check Ra Ra Riot, but had too much fun here.
- Bat For Lashes: Really enjoyed what I saw here. Good act to see, Also a nice breeze was coming in at this point which helped with the heat and the sun.
-Kaiser Chiefs: Good act, but didn't stay too long as I wanted to go check out the Silversun Pickups signing thingamajig.
--Neko Case: Great act. I got close for it (mostly for the next act), but she was one of the performers I really wanted to see that weekend. She didn't disappoint.
-Lou "Motherfuckin'" Reed: The main reason I was sticking to that north stage all day. Great performance from a legend. Unfortunately, there was some sound check problems which delayed him from starting, so it made me late for the next act I wanted to see. However, I am glad to have been able to see his performance.
-Silversun Pickups: I really like this band, so I was kinda down that missed half of their set due to the delay in Lou Reed's performance, but what I saw was very enjoyable. I will have to check them when they come back to see a full set. Lou was too big for me to miss.
-Jane's Addiction: Conisdering Lou's delay caused Band of Horses to start up later, there was an interesting clashing of the music from two bands in the beginning (due to Jane's having to stick to the 10 PM time limit). Nice surprise with Joe Perry coming out to play with them for Jane Says. Good performance, but paled in comparison with what I saw Friday with Depeche Mode. Though Perry's friend who proposed to his girlfriend on stage gave a nice answer ("Are you fucking kidding?!!!"), so there was a sweet note at the end along with his support for the Chicago 2016 bid for the Olympics.
I also noticed that a lot of the suburbanite kids on the Metra train home came off as douchebags. I also think I was the only one on that train that saw Lou instead of Snoop Dog. But at least I made some new friends amongst the Depeche Mode fans.
Well, that is the jist. Probably filled with spelling errors and bad grammar, but fuck it. I feel like with that I should fit in that I am a greetest and going to bed for no raisin cause typing that made me think of Futurama.
Friday - Lolla day 1
-Yuto Miyazawa: 9 year old Japanese boy playing mostly Ozzy Osbourne covers. T'was a fun site to see
-Manchester Orchestra: Decent act
-The Gaslight Anthem: Good high energy punk act.
-STS9 - Put them as my least favorite act on that stage, but still good.
-Thievery Corporation: Did not know what to expect and got a great spectacle of various styles of music. Great choice. Also a crazy ecstasy was around grinding and making out with various guys and girls in the audience. We were glad she was gone. She also gave me a hickey. Not proud the situation, but damn proud of the story.
-Depeche Mode: I really enjoyed their performance. One of the best highlights of the night. Up close for them too. No crazy drugged up girl was going to get me to lose my spot
Saturday - Comic Con and Lolla late
-Comic Con: My friends showed up at my house at 7 AM and were waiting for two girls who wanted to go with us to appear. However they overslept and never showed up, but promise to take us us out for dinner and a movie to make up for it. One of my friends, Mikey, dressed up as Deadpool. Because of this, our exploration was pretty slow as he kept posing for pictures. I am sure he also scratched up some walls at the place with his swords. While I only spent less than $100, he spent over $500. Most of it was taking pictures with wrestlers. One of them called Tara even took a picture with him for her Myspace. Also ran into Apexxx, Unaffected, and Darqkloud there as well saw the girls at the SG booth. Other than that, Comic Con didn't seem to be too eventful on my end. Probably cause i was tired from standing in the rain all day yesterday for Depeche Mode made me feel kind of drained and the lack of sleep and getting up early didn't help out with that.
-Rise Against: I knew I was going to see them in Chicago eventually. Nice act to see. Didn't really know what to expect. Felt bad though that I missed the Arctic Monkeys too. Still, enjoyed what I saw.
-Tool: Nice act, but even though I was only at the park for an hour, I really started to feel the heat. Plus being on my feet all day at the con with not much time to sit or eat probably didn't help out either. I did think Maynard said a good point with "The only sucks about playing at this time is I don't get to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Kind of bad scheduling." Also made a witty observation of the smell in the air and the people who decided to get fully naked and start dancing. As much as I would have liked to seen the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I figured it would have been cheaper to see their show in the future than it would to see a Tool show.
Sunday - Lolla Final Day
I almost wanted to sleep in the day, but decided to go earlier so I can see Bat for Lashes Good thing too
-Friendly Fires: Nice fun dance punk act. Was going to go check Ra Ra Riot, but had too much fun here.
- Bat For Lashes: Really enjoyed what I saw here. Good act to see, Also a nice breeze was coming in at this point which helped with the heat and the sun.
-Kaiser Chiefs: Good act, but didn't stay too long as I wanted to go check out the Silversun Pickups signing thingamajig.
--Neko Case: Great act. I got close for it (mostly for the next act), but she was one of the performers I really wanted to see that weekend. She didn't disappoint.
-Lou "Motherfuckin'" Reed: The main reason I was sticking to that north stage all day. Great performance from a legend. Unfortunately, there was some sound check problems which delayed him from starting, so it made me late for the next act I wanted to see. However, I am glad to have been able to see his performance.
-Silversun Pickups: I really like this band, so I was kinda down that missed half of their set due to the delay in Lou Reed's performance, but what I saw was very enjoyable. I will have to check them when they come back to see a full set. Lou was too big for me to miss.
-Jane's Addiction: Conisdering Lou's delay caused Band of Horses to start up later, there was an interesting clashing of the music from two bands in the beginning (due to Jane's having to stick to the 10 PM time limit). Nice surprise with Joe Perry coming out to play with them for Jane Says. Good performance, but paled in comparison with what I saw Friday with Depeche Mode. Though Perry's friend who proposed to his girlfriend on stage gave a nice answer ("Are you fucking kidding?!!!"), so there was a sweet note at the end along with his support for the Chicago 2016 bid for the Olympics.
I also noticed that a lot of the suburbanite kids on the Metra train home came off as douchebags. I also think I was the only one on that train that saw Lou instead of Snoop Dog. But at least I made some new friends amongst the Depeche Mode fans.
Well, that is the jist. Probably filled with spelling errors and bad grammar, but fuck it. I feel like with that I should fit in that I am a greetest and going to bed for no raisin cause typing that made me think of Futurama.
VIEW 13 of 13 COMMENTS
coolentity:
thanks! it was good meeting you too. ill be at more events.
ojaeflo:
You. man. 